Archive for April 29, 2016

Designers – we are in the final stretch of the school year with less than 6 weeks to go. Thank you for your hard work and commitment to testing over the past few weeks!

Week 33 is Teacher Appreciation Week!

Your teachers work incredibly hard every day: at school, before school, after school, on the weekends – you name it! Their work never stops. Let’s take a week to appreciate them and thank them for all that they do.

9th graders are going on a field trip to Olvera Street on Thursday, May 5th.

Prom is Friday, May 6th from 7-11:30 pm at the Long Beach Renaissance Hotel.

No class in session on Friday, May 6th (staff development day).

Sharefest Workday – tomorrow 4/30 at 8:00 am. You will earn service hours for attending. Thank you to all who signed up. See you tomorrow!

It’s that time of year. We have a special week to express how we feel all year long – immensely grateful for the wonderful teachers and staff at Da Vinci. If you’d like to join in the gratitude, we have a few opportunities this year.

One – We’d love to start the week off right with some breakfast treats. If you’d like to contribute (bagels, juice, etc.) please sign up on the link below and drop the items off at Da Vinci Design’s main office Monday morning for the staff to enjoy.

Two – We will be catering a lovely lunch for teachers and staff on Thursday, May 5th. If you can help with drink donations and maybe a few sweet desserts, please drop those off at the front office by Wednesday morning.

On Thursday, April 28, all DaVinci Design 10th and 11th grade students will be attending the NACAC (National Association of College Admissions Counselors) National College Fair. There will be over 100 colleges in attendance at this college fair from all over the U.S. and it provides a great opportunity for students to talk to college admissions officers (many of whom may be the person reading and reviewing their college applications).

On April 13, we sent each sophomore and junior home with a permission slip to be returned back to school on Tuesday, April 19th. There are still several students from each grade level that have not yet returned them to the counselor’s offices. This is a required field trip for all sophomore and junior students.

If your student did not turn their permission slip in, you will receive a Blackboard message indicating that. We are allowing the students to return them to us by no later than Tuesday, April 26. If we do not have one on file, your student will not be able to attend the field trip and will remain at school for the day.

If you can not locate your student’s permission slips, I have attached additional copies.

Attached are permission slips for 10th and 11th grade students. The 10th grade field trip slips have 10th grade teacher’s names on them (Buckner, Jones, Chen, Hidalgo,etc) and the 11th grade field trip slips have 11th grade teacher’s names on them (Barclay, Hou, Hwang, Cheng,etc).

For the past two weeks, counselors held small group family meetings with junior families and students from their caseloads. Those meetings will be continuing with junior families throughout specific dates during the months of April and select dates through the month of May. » Read more

Designers, there is more testing this week but now for our 9th and 10th graders! Students in grades 9 and 10 also get to attend the NACAC College Fair this week.

Don’t forget to sign up for a spot at Sharefest on Saturday 4/30 and earn your service hours! If you attend for the full 5 hours, you are halfway done your service hours, and you get a free t-shirt if you sign up by tomorrow (more info below).

Have a great weekend!

Sharefest Info 4/30, 8 am-1 pm

Designers – do you need to finish your service hours for the semester? Want to help beautify our campus? Please sign up below if you plan on attending the Sharefest Community Workday at Da Vinci Design on April 30th from 8:00 am – 1:00 pm.

Lunch, snacks and water will be provided for volunteers, as well as a Sharefest t-shirt! (Be sure to sign up by Friday 4/22 to guarantee receiving a t-shirt.)

We will be beautifying our campus by planting new vegetables in the gardens, repainting walls, cleaning, building new benches, and more, alongside community partner Balfour Beatty Construction! Da Vinci students can receive up to 5 service hours if they attend the entire time.

Family members and community members are welcome to sign up as well at the link below. We look forward to seeing you there!

Designers – do you need to finish your service hours for the semester? Want to help beautify our campus? Please sign up below if you plan on attending the Sharefest Community Workday at Da Vinci Design on April 30th from 8:00 am – 1:00 pm.

Lunch, snacks and water will be provided for volunteers, as well as a Sharefest t-shirt! (Be sure to sign up by Friday 4/22 to guarantee receiving a t-shirt.)

We will be beautifying our campus by planting new vegetables in the gardens, repainting walls, cleaning, building new benches, and more, alongside community partner Balfour Beatty Construction! Da Vinci students can receive up to 5 service hours if they attend the entire time.

Family members and community members are welcome to sign up as well at the link below. We look forward to seeing you there!

For the past two weeks, counselors held small group family meetings with junior families and students from their caseloads. Those meetings will be continuing with junior families throughout specific dates during the months of April and select dates through the month of May. » Read more

Designers – this week our 11th graders will be taking the SBAC tests and there is a career speaker series on Friday! Check out the schedules below for more details.

Grade 12 will run from 9:00-3:55, same lunch times as 9th and 10th grade, but will be in senior project rooms running their Pitch POLs. On Friday, there will be the career speaker series and the schedule is below:

Pianist needed for Spring Musical

A message from our Drama program lead, Adam Kalma: Hello DV community! Da Vinci Schools is producing the musical “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” which will be performed at DVS Forum on May 19 and 20. We are currently in need of a pianist to accompany the cast, so we are requesting anyone that could help or knows someone who could to please reach out. You can contact the co-director Mr. Adam Kalma at akalma@davincischools.org if you can assist in any way. Thank you so much!

Thanks to your amazing support, we raised more than double our goal. Combined with the generous corporate gifts, a total of $150,575.82 in gifts and pledges was raised for our Da Vinci students!

Way to go, Da Vincians!!

There is still time to make a tax-deductible gift or pledge! You can drop a check off at your school office, or give or pledge online at www.davincischools.org/makeagift.shtml. All pledges must be paid in full by June 1, 2016 to be eligible for the match. Please fulfill your pledges today at the web address above. We thank you!!

Sharefest WorkDay – April 30th

Students, do you still need your service hours? Do you want to help improve our campus? Then you can participate in our Community Workday on Saturday, April 30th and beautify our campus alongside Balfour Beatty Construction – the sponsor of our project! We will be building and fixing benches, planting new gardens, repainting walls, building display cases, are more!

Students, family members and community members are all welcome to volunteer that day. Sign up with a group of friends, or maybe come as an advisory and support each other in getting your service hours! Be on the lookout for a sign up link in the next few days.